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                                                                      rare door	as one crosses the bridge is a door of the common cabled
                                                                      		square with ogee above, but having its lintel carried by
                                                                      		leaf brackets awkwardly set at the angles this is rare in
                                                                      		Venice.  Then on the right, beside the canal, is an open
                                                                      		arcade of most pure and beautiful pointed arches , {and one
                                                                      		perfect round one of the same height}, all worked with
                                                                      		sec [drawing] and to be especially mentioned with other examples
                                                                      		of      the kind:  They all have the singular keystone
                                                                      		d. p 49 French book, and the plain early shaft B.
                                                                      		Then {still} on the right we come to a house, nearly ruined,
                                                                      		and very small but with 3 at very neat and characteristic
                                                                      		windows - 4th with [drawing] neatly set together closely
                                                                      		on the abacus of the on ne peut plus simple shaft,
                                                                      		without a base, fig 1 p 48 1 French book.  Make the shaft
                                                                      		itself about the height of the capital and window to its
                                                                      		point together, and put them on the plinth fig 2 with two
                                                                      		terminal pilasters of the same section all but the little
                                                                      		fillet below roll - and the thing is complete.
                                                                      		Besides these, is a fourth 4th larger with sec A p 48
                                                                      		French book, and finally a 4th in plain brick p 48 B.
                                                                      		With these curious instances may be compared the rose
                                                                      		windows in the upper story of {the side of} a small house
                                                                      		in the Campiello delle Strope between the San Jacopo
                                                                      		dell’ Orio, and the Frari.  These I have dagued. they are
                                                                      Rough chiselling	remarkable first for their general rough chiselling,
                                                                      		which I hitherto thought always a sign of recent work
                                                                      		secondly for the curious drawing of their

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